NUVEEN FLOATING RATE INCOME OPPORTUNITY FUND Common Stock ($0.01 par value) EQUITY DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENTEquity Distribution Agreement • September 28th, 2010 • Nuveen Floating Rate Income Opportunity Fund • New York
Nuveen Investments, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Manager”), confirms its agreement, subject to the terms and conditions stated herein, to retain Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated (the “Agent”) as the Manager’s exclusive sub-placement agent with respect to registered at-the-market offerings of 2,800,000 shares (the “Shares”) of the common stock, $0.01 par value per share (the “Common Stock”), of Nuveen Floating Rate Income Opportunity Fund, a Massachusetts business trust (the “Fund”), on the terms set forth in Section 2 of this Equity Distribution Agreement (the “Agreement”). The Fund’s investment adviser is Nuveen Asset Management, a Delaware corporation, and the Fund’s investment subadviser is Symphony Asset Management, LLC, a California limited liability company (collectively, the “Adviser”).
DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT NUVEEN FLOATING RATE INCOME OPPORTUNITY FUND Chicago, Illinois 60606Distribution Agreement • September 28th, 2010 • Nuveen Floating Rate Income Opportunity Fund • Illinois
Nuveen Floating Rate Income Opportunity Fund is a Massachusetts business trust operating as a closed-end management investment company (hereinafter referred to as the “Fund”). The Fund has filed a registration statement on Form N-2 (File Nos. 333-167242 and 811-21579) (the “Registration Statement”) pursuant to the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, to register additional common shares of the Fund, which may be issued and sold from time to time through various specified transactions, including at-the-market (“ATM”) offerings.
